An empire of plants : people and plants that changed the world / Toby & Will Musgrave
2000, 1st edition. London : Cassell & Co. Near fine title-blocked cloth copy with slightly rubbed corners in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #396119
ISBN: 0304354430
Physical description; 192 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; Bibliography: pages 188; and index. Contents; Introduction: the seeds of wealth -- Tobacco : 'that tawny weed' -- Cutting the cane -- The kings of cotton -- The tea transfer -- The fume of poppies -- The quest for quinine -- Riches from rubber -- Epilogue. Subjects; Plants and history. Plants History. Plants, Useful. Plants and civilization. British Empire. Collectors and collecting. History. Nicotiana tabacum. Saccharum officinarum. Gossypium. Camellia sinensis. Papaver somniferum. Cinchona. Hevea brasiliensis. Plants, Useful History. Plants, Cultivated History. Plant collectors Europe History. Plants, Useful History. Botany, Economic History. Plants history. Plant collectors Europe History. Plants and history. Plants, Cultivated History. Plants, Useful History. Produce trade Great Britain Colonies History. Tea trade History. Tobacco industry History. Sugar trade History. Opium trade History. Quinine industry History. Cotton trade History. Rubber industry and trade History. Tea. Tobacco. Sugar. Quinine. Rubber. Expeditions. Economic plants. Colonies. Opium trade. Rubber trade. Great Britain Colonies Commerce History. Economic botany. Science History.
Price: €14.95